India | Book, Essay

India promises travel on a grand scale: colorful, exciting, at times exasperating, but never dull. This bestselling and indispensable guide is revered for its practical information on the complexities of travel in India, exquisitely detailed maps, good-value listings for all budgets, and essential advice on Indian culture, solo travel, language, and bargaining. color. 200 maps.

OUR STORYA beat-up old auto, a few dollars in the pocket and a sense of escapade. In 1972 that’s all Tony and Maureen Wheeler needed for the trip of a life-time – across Europe and Asia overland to Australia. It took several months, and at the terminal – broke but inspired – they sat at their kitchen tabular array authorship and stapling together their first travel usher, Across Asia on the Cheap. Within a hebdomad they’d sold 1500 transcripts and Lonely Planet was born. One hundred million guidebooks subsequently, Lonely Planet is the world’s taking travel usher publishing house with content to about every finish on the planet.

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